Saturday 5 May 1798

Plays

Performances
The Stranger, The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphosed
Event Type
Standard
Revenue
£188 6s
Available Revenue
59%
Capacity
31%
Beneficiary(ies)
N/A
Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £188 6s £126 7s 6d £58 16s 6d £2 19s 3s A Ticket
Total £188 6s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Actors £10 10s Internal Mrs. Jordan
Cleaners £3 5s Internal Mrs. Fosbrook for Sweepers
Employees (Other) £564 4s Internal 6 Days Sals. at £94. 0. 8 Pr. diem
Security 17s 6d Internal Soldiers
Stage Managers £31 10s Internal Mr Wroughton
Musicians (Kettle Drums) £5 5s Internal Asbridge by Mr. Forster
Musicians (Trumpets) £2 5s Internal Thompson Trumpets
Mantuamaking £1 4s Departmental Mantua's Women "Mantua's" written once but applying to this and another entry.
Mantuamaking £2 8s Departmental Mantua's Bill "Mantua's" written once but applying to this and another entry.
Mantuamaking £3 Internal Miss Rein Salary
Tailoring £2 4s 4d Departmental Taylors Bill
Tailoring £1 16s Internal Do. [Taylors] Salary
Wardrobe (Other) 15s Internal Mrs. Smith
Wardrobe (Other) £3 3s Internal Miss Linley
Wardrobe (Other) £1 10s Internal Mrs. Phillimore
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £40 Departmental Carpenter's
Production Design (Other) £5 Departmental Do. [Johnstone] Men
Production Design (Other) £6 Internal Johnstone Saly
Scene Painters £5 5s Internal Miss Greenwoods
Scene Painters £2 2s Internal Chalmers
Scene Painters £3 3s Internal Greenwood Tom
Candles (Tallow) £10 10s External Rablus Tallow Chandler
Turnery £12 12s External Mr. Pryer for Pryer
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Appleby
Messengers and Porters £1 4s Internal Chatterley
Annuities £4 4s External Mr. Lacey Presumably a payment on Willoughby Lacey's annuity. BD vol. 9, pp. 108-10 states that, from 1804-05 through 1808-09 Lacey was paid £6 6s. per week as part of "an agreement that he was to receive one guinea from every performance. He also was paid periodically on his annuity but, as was usual with Sheridan, those payments frequently were in arrears"; and that Sheridan paid the second Mrs Lacey "18 guineas due on her husband's annuity" in 1804. However, frequent multiple-guinea payments (sometimes £6 6s) to a "Mr. Lacey" appear in the Drury Lane account books from the 1797-98 season onwards. This suggests that the £6 6s payments made between 1804-05 and 1808-09 in fact fell into a longer-running series of annuity payments.
Law £1 1s External Man in Possession
Loan Repayments (as Debtor) £10 External J. G Instalmt. to Messrs. H & Co.
Total £736 1s 10d